How to Protect and Benefit From Your Ideas

August 24, 2005

Some time ago Anthony Cerminaro linked to this publication of the American Intellectual Property Association, written for U.S. laws, which: is intended to assist the independent or novice inventor in protecting, evaluating and commercializing new ideas and inventions and “to help individuals profit from their ideas. It is not intended as a “do-it-yourself” book which […]

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Hotel Port Blocking

August 23, 2005

Jeff Pulver writes a couple of posts about an experience he recently had with port blocking on 5060 in a London hotel. He wonders whether blocking a port used by VoIP was intentional, and what comes next – blocking ports used by a SlingPlayer to protect hotel TV revenue?

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Unfettered Wireless

August 22, 2005

Tom Evslin recently commented on a Walt Mossberg article (paid sub. required) on the lock US telcos have on the wireless devices they permit on their networks (which is also the case in Canada) and the chilling effect that has on innovation. The gist of Mossberg’s article: However, I believe that, in the name of […]

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Articles on Entrepreneurship

August 22, 2005

Frank Demmler, Adjunct Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University, has a terrific archive of articles on deals and entrepreneurship, including many on financing and VC. A list is here. Via Anthony Cerminaro.

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MuniWiFi for San Francisco

August 21, 2005

This has been an awfully long time coming but it looks like San Francisco is making definitive steps towards establishing a city-wide Wi-Fi network (press release here): Taking a step toward bridging the so-called digital divide between the tech-savvy and people who can’t afford computers, the city government on Tuesday issued guidelines for a plan […]

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Patently Absurd

August 21, 2005

Cringely writes from the pulpit on why patent reform legislation currently before Congress is “the worst kind of special interest law-making that really hurts us all”.

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Lloyds to Offer Open Source Insurance

August 18, 2005

The Register reports that the venerable Lloyd’s of London has launched open source insurance. The insurance protects corporate open source users from IP infringement claims – in many cases the vendor / developer does not provide an IP infringement indemnity, is thought to have inadequate financial depth to fulfill the indemnity, or does not protect […]

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How to Decide What Bugs to Fix When

August 18, 2005

Via Fric Frac, here’s an article by Scott Berkun with some advice on organizing your bug fixes. This article is Part 1, with Part 2 still to come.

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Telecom Policy Review

August 17, 2005

Comments on the submissions to Canada’s Telecommunications Policy Review are due by September 15th. Michael Geist has two posts this week summarizing what’s at issue and pointing to the online versions of the submissions.

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Dvorak on Broadband and MuniWifi

August 16, 2005

John C. Dvorak’s latest column in PC Magazine is full of seething frustration over the delivery of broadband in the U.S., much of it aimed at the anti-muniwifi lobby (which I’ve written about often). Gist: I see crummy service, bad practices, useless utilities commissions, cheating, and unregulated mayhem. It’s a disaster, and the public is […]

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MD5 Uncertainty Results in Dismissal of Photo Camera Case

August 15, 2005

Apparently a Court in New South Wales, Australia has dismissed a speeding ticket case because the speeder was prepared to argue that the MD5 hash function (used by the camera to certify that photos were tamper-free) was not reliable, and the prosecution was not prepared for the defense. Details in Bruce Scheier’s Cryptogram Newsletter, and […]

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Under Pressure

August 15, 2005

In June I wrote a short piece on the emergence of what appeared to be a campaign by CRIA to target Michael Geist personally, presumably because of his vocal opposition to pro-industry amendment of the Copyright Act. The Ryerson Review of Journalism has recently featured an article by Shlomit Kriger titled “Under Pressure” and subtitled […]

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